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Just Two Weeks Ago, I Had the Honor of Presiding Over My Second Yale Law School Commencement June 5, 2006 Dear Graduates and Friends: Just two weeks ago, I had the honor of presiding over my second Yale Law School commencement. The weather was perfect and the mood festive, as we graduated a spectacular class. We listened to stirring speeches from our faculty speaker, Deputy Dean Dan Kahan, and Yale’s newest Doctor of Laws, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a historic figure who, fittingly, both succeeded and was succeeded by graduates of our School (Justices Potter Stewart ’41 and Samuel Alito ’75). While it is too early to tell where the class of 2006 will end up, several have offers to teach or research at top law schools; others have completed or will complete joint degrees. Some will work at law firms, others will start judicial clerkships. At least one has already been invited to clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court, following the eight Yale Law graduates who clerked there in October Term 2005. Another will clerk for the International Court of Justice, joining another Yale Law graduate clerking there, as well as the Court’s new President, Rosalyn Higgins, JSD ’62, the first woman to hold that esteemed position. Seventeen current and recent graduates will begin public interest fellowships in the United States and abroad, and one has already successfully argued a case at the Second Circuit. The unique class just graduated included five students who were homeschooled; one who called for a carbon-neutral graduation; and another who days before graduation published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times explaining why the popular television show Lost illustrates the defects of a society lacking the rule of law. Remarkably, despite the “Northeast corridor” label sometimes given us by the media, the Class of 2006 included four citizens of Fargo, North Dakota, with a fifth Fargoan in our rising second-year class, a number larger than the number from Chicago, L.A., or San Francisco! On the day after graduation, our entire Faculty met in retreat, for the third consecutive year, to discuss the state of the School and our common aspirations for its future. At that retreat, we all agreed that the State of the Yale Law School remains remarkably strong. Let me outline why, in the process capturing just some of the flavor of the academic year just ended. ****** The school year began by welcoming the class of 2008, as remarkable a collection of students as has ever walked these halls. Members of the class had worked in every corner of the globe: for Teach for America, for the Peace Corps in West Africa, as missionaries to the Dominican Republic, for the National Security Council and the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and for the Center for Disease Control in Uganda. The group includes a professional dancer, an Olympic athlete, a music scout for two major record labels, a gospel singer, two physicians, three student body presidents, a biochemist, a nuclear engineer, and a plasma astrophysicist. About one-third of the entering class came straight from college; another third had taken a year or two off; and the rest had taken off three or more years before entering law school. The class included nine Truman Scholars, eight Fulbright Scholars, six Marshall Scholars, five Rhodes Scholars, and two Soros Fellows. At least two had climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro; another had hiked the entire length of the Appalachian Trail. One won the world championship in Odyssey of the Mind; another won Teen Jeopardy, and one even trained eight-armed octopi during research to find a cure for Alzheimer's Disease. Hurricane Katrina blew ashore as the academic year began--followed shortly by Hurricane Rita--and quickly dominated our fall student activities. The wide-ranging response gives you a sense of the passion of our community for public service: • The Katrina Class Challenge and the Yale Law Women Mardi Gras fundraiser, organized by some of our newest students, raised nearly $17,000, which was matched dollar-for-dollar by the Yale Corporation members. • Just two days after the term began, a panel entitled “Why Hurricane Katrina Wreaked Such Havoc and What We Can Do About It” filled the Levinson Auditorium with experts, including Henry Fernandez ‘94, former Economic Development Administrator, City of New Haven; Visiting Professor Doug Kysar; Carol Rose, the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization; and Elinor Sutton ’07, who had lived in New Orleans for several years as a Teach for America volunteer. • Recognizing that recovery from the devastation would be a long process, students and faculty (particularly Clinical Professors Bob Solomon and Denny Curtis, a New Orleans native), developed the Hurricane Relief Law Project to generate responses that would be genuinely helpful and well suited to the Law School's strengths. By year’s end, o Thanks to the Deborah L. Rhode ’77 Public Interest Fund, three students were able to travel to New Orleans to meet with local nonprofits and to lay the groundwork for a steady stream of law-related research and advocacy projects in the areas of housing, criminal justice, education reform, and local election issues. o Following these efforts, the student organizers of a panel on "Emergency Justice" at the annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference--advised by Professor Ronald Sullivan, former Director of the DC Public Defender Services and current Director of the Samuel and Anna Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic--worked with leaders of the Louisiana bar, as well as state legislative, executive, and judicial branches, to host a working conference examining different ways to revive, restructure and fund Louisiana public defender services. o Several students from Tulane Law School spent the fall semester at YLS as visiting students. One member of the class of 2006, John Tye, now returns the favor by heading to New Orleans on a Skadden Fellowship to work for the New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation. • About twenty students spent their vacation week volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and other organizations in the Gulf Coast region. The group repaired damaged roofs, cleared debris from the storm, and laid foundations for new houses. With this difficult and important work our students addressed the severe housing crisis left in Katrina's wake, one nail and roof shingle at a time. ****** The greatest challenge to our school during my deanship is renewal of our world-class faculty. This year, we made striking gains toward that goal with a string of exciting young appointments: One of the most distinctive new voices in the legal academy, Heather Gerken, Professor of Harvard Law School, will join our permanent faculty next month. An acclaimed teacher, Professor Gerken was the first junior professor in the history of Harvard Law School to receive the Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, awarded annually to the School's outstanding instructor. A summa cum laude graduate of both Princeton and Michigan Law School, Heather clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit and for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court before entering private practice in Washington, D.C., and joining Harvard as an Assistant Professor in 2000. Since then, Professor Gerken has become one of the country's leading experts on voting rights and election law, the role of groups in the democratic process, and the relationship between diversity and democracy. Also joining us from Harvard in July will be Christine Jolls, the acknowledged leader of the new generation of law and economics scholars, one of the country’s leading employment scholars, and a founder of behavioral law and economics, a cutting-edge field of scholarship that incorporates behavioral models into the economic analysis of law. A graduate of Stanford and Harvard Law School, Professor Jolls earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then clerked for Judge Stephen Williams of the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, before joining the Harvard faculty in 1994 and earning tenure in 2001. A Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Christine won the Harvard Dean’s Teaching Award in 2003 and enjoys wide respect for her intellectual rigor, analytic clarity, and empirical skill. Because she is so deeply committed to the scholarly values that Yale Law School holds most dear, we are thrilled that she has chosen to make Yale Law School her intellectual home. Tracey L. Meares, the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago School of Law, and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, will join us in January. A graduate of the University of Illinois and Chicago Law School, Professor Meares clerked for Judge Harlington Wood, Jr. of the Seventh Circuit, then worked in the Justice Department, before joining Chicago’s faculty in 1994. Tracey has established herself as one of our most insightful commentators on race, crime, and the law. Using empirical methods and social psychology, she has emerged as that rare scholar who focuses on crime prevention, by applying a civil society approach to law enforcement that builds upon the interaction among law, culture, social norms, and social organization. We add to this senior group the country’s most influential young clinician, Michael Wishnie, ’94, who returns next month as Clinical Professor of Law. A Skadden Fellow who received his B.A. and J.D. from Yale, followed by clerkships with Judge Lee Sarokin of the Third Circuit and Justices Breyer and Blackmun at the Supreme Court, Mike has been Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic and the Hays Civil Liberties Program at NYU, where he has taught Civil Legal Services, Immigrant Rights, Administrative and Regulatory State, and Labor & Employment Law.
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